Arthroverts
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Agree with all of the above. If you consider where millipedes live in the wild (in rotting logs and rotting leaf litter), our relatively "sterile" enclosures are probably a step-down from what they encounter in the wild in terms of fungal and bacterial activity.
A note on the expanded wood pellets...I would recommend you let it ferment/rot outside of the enclosure for a few months if you can. I once put millipedes on a fresh straight flake soil (flake soil=expanded wood pellets) substrate, and once it started rotting the heat generated by it ended up cooking some of my specimens. That is an extreme example, so if you are only using fresh flake soil as part of your substrate, it should be fine (you might even be able to switch the heat pad off for a while, ha ha), but just something to consider for the future.
Thanks,
Arthroverts
A note on the expanded wood pellets...I would recommend you let it ferment/rot outside of the enclosure for a few months if you can. I once put millipedes on a fresh straight flake soil (flake soil=expanded wood pellets) substrate, and once it started rotting the heat generated by it ended up cooking some of my specimens. That is an extreme example, so if you are only using fresh flake soil as part of your substrate, it should be fine (you might even be able to switch the heat pad off for a while, ha ha), but just something to consider for the future.
Thanks,
Arthroverts